Reading is the key to success. Apparently every successful person develops a passion for reading. This is because reading is a key element to obtain the information required to understand something. For instance, lawyers have to study and learn every established law on their specific branches. Sometimes the law changes according to people’s needs. A good lawyer has to be informed about the latest news in the court. A doctor has to be informed of the latest advances in medicine.
Reading is very important for all mankind. Everything is relative in this world, especially reading. Reading can open any doors and it can lead you into a path of success. Studies have confirmed that reading to your unborn child is very good. This way your child will develop a passion for reading.
How do you develop a passion for reading? There is only one way you can boost your passion for reading. Let me explain this to you. If you want to learn how to ride a bike, you have to get on the bike as many times as possible until you have learned. It works the same way with reading. If you want to boost your reading, take a book and read it all the way through. When you finish reading your first book, take another book and do the same. Try to read as much as you can. If you are going out, grab a magazine, a book, an article or something to read.
There is a very important factor behind the reading—reading comprehension. It’s what makes you understand the meaning behind the text. Let’s assume that you read a document and you are supposed to explain the meaning of the document. How would you explain the document if you couldn’t capture the message of the author?
1. The first two paragraphs mainly talk about .| A．the key to success |
| B．the importance of reading |
| C．what reading comprehension is |
| D．how to develop a passion for reading |
| A．a strong passion for reading |
| B．the latest information in reading |
| C．the most important factor behind the reading |
| D．something that makes people understand what they read |
| A．following the natural time order |
| B．presenting opinions and giving examples |
| C．comparing the opinions of different people |
| D．presenting a cause and analyzing its effects |
| A．Popular reading websites. |
| B．Famous people who love reading. |
| C．The importance of reading at school. |
| D．Ways to improve reading comprehension. |
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【推荐1】Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print? Investigators have been trying to determine whether students do as well when reading an assigned text on a digital screen as on paper.
A number of researchers have sought to measure learning by asking people to read a passage of text, either in print or on a digital device, and then testing for comprehension.
Most studies have found that participants scored about the same when reading in each medium, though a few have indicated that students performed better on tests when they read in print.
Since in standardized testing, reading passages and answering questions afterwards may tell us little about any deeper level of understanding, some researchers are beginning to pose more subtle questions.
When people were asked to read d story in print or on a digital device and then to reconstruct the plot development, the answer is: Print yielded better results. When people were asked to read by choosing how much time to spend on each platform, the researchers found that participants devoted less time to reading the passage on screen and performed less well on the following comprehension test.
So, how does the learning question relate to educational goals?
To become skilled in critical thinking, students need to be able to handle text. The text may be long, complex or both. To make sense of it, students cannot skim, rush ahead or continually get distracted. So, does reading in print versus on screen build critical thinking skills?
When asked in which medium they felt they concentrated better, 92 percent replied “print”. For long academic reading, 86 percent favored print Participants were also reported to be more likely to reread academic materials if they were in print
What’s more, a number of students indicated they believed print was a better medium for learning. By contrast, in talking about digital screens, students noted “danger of distraction” and “no concentration”.
Evidently, it’s not too hard to tell that a pattern did emerge: Print stood out as the medium for doing serious work.
1. What have the researchers asked participants to do on two reading media?| A．Participants are tested in standardized testing for critical thinking. |
| B．Participants are allowed to decide the time they spend on each platform. |
| C．Participants are asked to read a story and then compose a similar plot. |
| D．Participants are required to write a summary after skimming academic materials. |
| A．Reading in print is more likely to form a deeper understanding. |
| B．In standardized reading test, print is distinctively better than screen. |
| C．Spending a little more time on screen, participants may have a better understanding. |
| D．Reading on screen is of no benefit to improving reading ability. |
| A．We should delete all the amusement apps from our cellphone. |
| B．We should read more attentively and be able to analyse the text. |
| C．We should be able to go through the most materials in the least time. |
| D．We should search for more documents on digital reading devices. |
| A．Studies on reading media |
| B．Printed reading: better for serious work |
| C．Digital screen or Printed paper? Reader decides. |
| D．Strike a balance on reading media |
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A family story is like a puzzle. Each family member leaves some clues. Family members come together because they have a common tie with one another, sharing a name and special traditions. Exploring family roots and sharing past memories ensure each tradition lives on.
Ancestory.com has created customized (订做的) “Our Name is History” books to give your family a look into your history by learning about your last name. By visiting it, you can check if information is available for your last name. Ancestory.com researchers have collected more than 5 billion names from records such as passenger lists, immigration records and from birth, marriage and death records. The collected information is then used for each customized book.
“Our Name is History” books are available for nearly 200,000 last names, accounting form 85 percent of all the US homes. The collected information is a great start of learning about your family roots. This book will not only surprise your mother, but also become a precious memory to pass down through the generations. It can also be an inspiration for her to talk about all the special women in her life. So instead of just giving her flowers or jewelry, give her a special family name book and share your favorite memories with her.
After learning the general history of your last name, your might be inspired to continue your exploration. The “Our Name is History” books include a special software product for building, searching and sharing your family history.
To learn more about “Our Name is History” books, visit www. Ournameinhistory.com. The deadline to order in time for Mother’s Day is April 30.
1. The first paragraph mainly talks about _________.
| A．the importance of exploring family root |
| B．what a family story really is |
| C．the importance of a family name |
| D．how to pass down a family’s traditions |
| A．The “Our Name is History” book. |
| B．The website Ancestory.com. |
| C．The website www. ournameinhistory.com. |
| D．The family’s last name. |
| A．are very cheap compared with flowers or jewelry |
| B．can tell us where we should look to find out family history |
| C．cover the last names of all Americans |
| D．can tell us origins of our last names |
| A．They may be inspired to talk about some special women they remember. |
| B．They will collect information about their family roots. |
| C．They will learn how great their ancestors are. |
| D．They will share them with some other families. |
| A．To tell us how to explore family roots. |
| B．To help family traditions to live on. |
| C．To advertise “Our Name is History” books. |
| D．To tell us how to create our own family history. |
【推荐3】All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley’s memoir (回忆录) about his 10 years working as a guard at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), brings new meaning to the term “art appreciation”.
Bringley is not the only Met staffer to write about the institution. But Bringley’s “guard’s-eye view” is unique, and he presents his personal story with sincerity. After his brother Tom’s death in 2008, Bringley gave up his job as a journalist for a job in which “I was happy to be going nowhere”. He explains, “I had lost someone. I did not wish to move on from that. In a sense, I didn’t wish to move at all.”
All the Beauty in the World offers well-chosen facts about the museum to support Bringley’s personal tale. The Met opened in 1880 and has since expanded to more than 2.5 million square feet — “the size of about 3,000 average New York apartments”. The “salmon run (鲑鱼回游) of visitors” that goes up the Grand Staircase every morning when the museum opens adds up to a crowd of nearly 7 million visitors a year.
As interesting as these facts are, it’s Bringley’s reflections on dozens of individual paintings, photographs, sculptures and ancient artifacts that turn this book into a tribute (致敬) to the power of art. I think that “sometimes we need permission to stop and adore things, and a work of art gives us that”. In a Vermeer portrait (肖像) of a dozing maidservant, he is moved to see that the artist captured “that feeling we sometimes have that a private setting possesses a holiness (神圣) of its own. It was my constant feeling in Tom’s hospital room.”
As rich in moving insights as the Met is in treasures, All the Beauty in the World reminds us of the importance of learning not “about art, but from it” and finding peace into art. This is art appreciation at a deep level.
1. What sets All the Beauty in the World apart from other books written by Met staffers?| A．The author’s unique writing perspective. | B．The author’s opinions on artworks. |
| C．Its focus on historical facts and truth. | D．Its detailed introduction to the paintings. |
| A．His hobby from childhood. | B．His failure as a journalist. |
| C．Loss of his beloved brother. | D．His ambition of being great. |
| A．By interviewing retired staff members. |
| B．By relating museum facts to his personal life. |
| C．By recording the number of daily visitors yearly. |
| D．By researching the background of each masterpiece. |
| A．Finding Peace in Art | B．Reflecting on Life with Art |
| C．Little-known Facts about the Met | D．Inner Worlds of the Famous Artists |
【推荐1】It is easy to be doubtful about announcements of drugs that claim to slow the progress of Alzheimers, the most common form of dementia (痴呆). A new drug called Lecanemab, however, may be the real deal. Results of a clinical trial, conducted by its makers, Eisai, of Tokyo, and Biogen, of Cambridge Massachusetts, have just been announced in the New England Journal of Medicine (November; 2022). After18 months, it had slowed the progress of symptoms by a quarter.
The trial involved 1795 participants who were in the early stages of the illness. Half received the drug. The others, a placebo (安慰剂). It showed two things. One was the modest but measurable slowing of progression. The other was that an explanation of Alzheimers called the Amyloid Hypothesis seems correct.
Amyloid is a protein which accumulates (积累) in parts of the brains of those with Alzheimers, which is an established sign of the illness. Lecanemab, containing a special antibody, is found to be able to attach itself to amyloid and then attracts immune-system cells to clear the protein away (and measurably did so in those receiving the drug).That suggests amyloid does indeed directly create problems associated with dementia and that Lecanemab can slow down the development of the disease.
This is a small first step. Some experts question whether the test used to show an improvement in symptoms is clinically meaningful because amyloid can be detected only with the help of a piece of expensive equipment, which is not something that can easily be turned into a routine program. Moreover, Lecanemab also caused swelling and bleeding of the brain in a number of participants. Now that the new drug has been shown to work, it can be followed up with further tests. Hope for more good news soon.
1. What can be learned from the first two paragraphs?| A．The public shows confidence in new drugs for Alzheimers. |
| B．The new drug had an obvious effect on the participants. |
| C．All participants didn’t receive the new drug. |
| D．It took 18 months to make the new drug. |
| A．illustrating how the drug interacts with amyloid in body |
| B．making comparisons between two groups of participants |
| C．describing how immune-system works in detail |
| D．quoting the comments of other scientists |
| A．It can’t be accessed easily in daily treatment. |
| B．It needs to be further tested before its launch. |
| C．It costs too much for ordinary families. |
| D．It can cause some side-effects. |
| A．Reliable. | B．Groundbreaking | C．Promising | D．Risky. |
【推荐2】When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru’s Cordillera Azul National Park, they thought it was a newly discovered species. After conducting a DNA analysis of the bird, researchers made a surprising discovery that it was a hybrid that resulted from two related pink hummingbird species. However, they found the gold-throated hummingbird wasn’t the result of an even genetic split(分离).
Since it’s rare for hummingbirds of the same species to have such wildly different throat feathers, the researchers dived deeper into the mystery of the gold feathers on the hybrid species. “It’s a little like cooking: If you mix salt and water, you kind of know what you’re gonna get, but mixing two complex recipes together might give more unpredictable results,” said study coauthor Chad Eliason, Field Museum senior research scientist, in a statement. “This hybrid is a mix of two complex recipes for a feather from its two parent species.”
The base color of feathers comes from pigment(色素), but feather cell structure and the way light reflects off the feathers create structural color. It is this structural color that generates the colourful nature of hummingbird feathers.
The researchers hope their work inspires others to keep an eye out for potential hybrid species of hummingbirds, Mauro, a curator of birds at Chicago’s Field Museum said.
“New tools like genetic data open up new understanding of how these events happen across geography and time,” Mauro said. “One question we want to look into in the region in Peru where this study was done is how this complex foothill landscape has evolved through time and what role those changes have played in diversification of birds and other organisms.”
1. What can we know about the gold-throated hummingbird?| A．It is a foreign species. | B．Its feathers reflect off more light. |
| C．It is a relative to known species. | D．Its throat is different in structure. |
| A．To introduce a topic. | B．To give an example. |
| C．To present an issue. | D．To explain a phenomenon. |
| A．The base color. | B．The pigment. |
| C．The feather cell structure. | D．The structrual color. |
| A．Where the study is carried out. |
| B．How new tools are used in the research. |
| C．The role of landscape changes in birds’ evolution. |
| D．The method of identifying the gold-throated hummingbird. |
【推荐3】As palaeontologists can tell, Neanderthals (尼安德特人) died out around 40,000 years ago. But they did not vanish from the Earth entirely. In the past decade it has become clear that Neanderthals mated with the ancestors of modern humans, and that some of those unions produced offspring (generations to follow). The result is that almost half of the Neanderthal genome survives, spread in small quantities among most modern people's DNA. The exception is those with mostly African ancestors, for Neanderthals seem never to have lived in Africa.
Such genes have been associated with everything from hairiness to fatness. Many seem to be related to the immune system, and to affect the risk of developing diseases including lupus, Crohn's disease and diabetes.
A pair of recent papers suggest Covid-19 belongs on that list as well. Two long DNA strings, both inherited from Neanderthals, appear to have resistance or sensibility to severe Covid-19, depending on which is present.
The work was led by Hugo Zeberg and Svante Paabo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, whose researchers pioneered the study of Neanderthal DNA.
Their first paper, published in Nature in September, described one Neanderthal DNA string, known as a “haplotype” (单体型), which is associated with a higher risk of serious illness.
Having one copy of the haplotype, which is found on the third of the 46 chromosomes possessed by humans, doubles the chances of a trip to intensive care. Those unlucky enough to possess two copies, one from each parent, face an even higher risk.
That genetic bad luck is not evenly distributed. It is most common among people of South Asia, with 63 per cent of the population of Bangladesh carrying at least one copy; and among Europeans, where the rate is around 16 per cent. As expected, it is almost absent from Africa. More strikingly, it is also very rare in Eastern Asia.
Exactly what the haplotype does is not clear. One gene within it affects a protein that interacts with the cellular receptors (细胞受体) that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes Covid-19) uses to enter cells and control them.
The haplotype is also thought to be involved in the production of signalling proteins, called cytokines, which help to regulate the immune system. An overly aggressive immune response is one mechanism by which Covid-19 kills.
1. Who are the most likely to carry the haplotype according to the study?| A．Eastern Asians. | B．Africans. | C．Europeans. | D．South Asians. |
| A．The haplotype is equally distributed among people in different races. |
| B．Covid-19 kills partly because the immune system responds to SARS-CoV-2 abnormally. |
| C．The haplotype appears to have resistance or sensibility to severe Covid-19. |
| D．People unlucky to have two copies of the haplotype are sure to suffer from serious illness. |
| A．Why the Neanderthal genome is related to a higher risk of serious illness. |
| B．What effects the haplotype has on different people in different races. |
| C．Why the haplotype makes people have a higher risk of Covid-19. |
| D．What the haplotype does to affect and regulate the immune system. |
| A．The second study on Covid-19. |
| B．The previous study about Neanderthals. |
| C．The other Neanderthal DNA string. |
| D．The sensibility to severe Covid-19. |
